Cubase 5 how can I use audio drum tracks to create midi drum track.

[hotrod ford]

Hey every one.
I have a couple of songs recorded live in a studio with a full band.
The drum sounds are not that great and there are some small drum hit timing issues.
drums were recorded with all seperate mics etc.
how can i use these audio tracks to create a midi track .
Keeping in mind that the tempo varies during the song which is cool so the drums need to match the other many instruments played on the recording.
thanks a heap.
cubase 5 / p.c/ firestudio.

 

[TetraFish]

Drumagog will do the trick, It's a bit pricy though. I tried it thinking it would do a drum track that was recorded on one track and it wouldn't, So you need individual tracks. It has a trial version too.

Drumagog 5 : Drumagog Home

 

[Guitargodgt]

Have not had huge luck with it working with cubase 5, but KTdrumtrigger is free.

The best program I have found for turning acoutsitc drums into midi is Toontracks drumtracker.

 

[TetraFish]

Have not had huge luck with it working with cubase 5, but KTdrumtrigger is free.

The best program I have found for turning acoutsitc drums into midi is Toontracks drumtracker.

I've been fairly happy with toontrack stuff so I might have to give drumtracker a try. I did some research and I cant find a difinitive answer to the following.


1) Does Drumtracker do a mono drum track (kick, snare, hats etc.. in one track)?
2) Is it stand alone only? If it's stand alone I assume you have to do something so it's in sync with your cubase track when you import the MIDI file, but what.

Can you shed any light??

 

[Guitargodgt]

Unfortunately it's stand alone only, but this isn't an issue (IMO).

Each drum track is handled separately in it's own window and you map it that way. You can easily add things like buzz and side stick as articulations on a track (since buzzes and side stick would be captured on a snare track). You just select those hits separately.

Quite a few maps are available when working with drums (like superior for instance) making it easy to select articulations.

You draw in the threshold for anything complicated (fast snare rolls for instance) and DT is pretty good as getting close to what the velocity should be (sometimes it's dead on).

The way I fly it back in is to export at 120, import the midi. Make the tempo in cubase 120 (usually via hitting the tempo thing from track to fixed or whatever) hit the note button on the midi track and then put my tempo back to track. Works like a charm.

If you want to fart around with tempos though you can export with a tempo map to the midi. You can also export midi 0 or 1 as well.